Functional status and medium-term prognosis of very elderly patients after an ICU stay: a prospective observational study

Autor: C, Magnette, M, De Saint Hubert, C, Swine, S, Bouhon, J, Jamart, A, Dive, I, Michaux

Publikováno v: Minerva anestesiologica. 81(7)

Because the proportion of elderly patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) is increasing, the objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that very elderly patients with better preadmission functional status would have better medium-

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25653149

Microaspirations during mechanical ventilation: polyurethane versus polyvinyl cuffed endotracheal tubes

Autor: F Schryvers, B Krug, T V Borght, Pierre Bulpa, I. Michaux, S Bouhon, Jacques Jamart, Patrick Evrard, Alain-Michel Dive

Publikováno v: Critical Care

Mechanically ventilated (MV) patients are prone to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. One of the major risk factors is microaspirations of supraglottic secretions past the endotracheal tube cuff (usually in polyvinyl (PV)). A novel polyurethane

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https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8460

Functional status and medium-term prognosis of very elderly patients after an ICU stay: a prospective observational study.

Autor: Magnette C; Department of Intensive Care Medicine, CHU Dinant Godinne University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium - isabelle.michaux@uclouvain.be., De Saint Hubert M, Swine C, Bouhon S, Jamart J, Dive A, Michaux I

Publikováno v: Minerva anestesiologica [Minerva Anestesiol] 2015 Jul; Vol. 81 (7), pp. 743-51. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jan 30.